Simple steps may help avoid life safety compliance woes

Although it might sound like obvious advice, plenty of safety officers have nonetheless slipped on this thought: If you want to stay on top of Joint Commission life safety compliance, you first need to carefully look over the life safety and EC standards.

As a firsthand observer of life safety compliance concerns, Brad Keyes, CHSP, said he is stunned at how many managers haven’t actually read the standards in the first place. Keyes, who is a consultant at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA, spoke during HCPro’s free January 29 audio conference, “Hospital Safety in 2009: A Sneak Preview of the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium.” He will also be a featured presenter at the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium, which takes place May 14–15 in Las Vegas (go to www.hospitalsafetycenter.com for more details).